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Students traded their pencils and notebooks for work gloves and garbage bags on Wednesday to help clean up the area for Earth Day.

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North Sask.

It’s a problem that impacts all of Saskatchewan, particularly remote and northern communities. Now the Saskatchewan government is working on further steps to reduce poverty.

The Manitoba government is investing in three cutting-edge initiatives that promise to advance the province as a national and international leader in health research.

The NDP’s Amanda Lathlin won more than 50 per cent of the votes cast in The Pas by-election Tuesday to fill the vacancy left when former MLA Frank Whitehead stepped down last year.

An inquisitive École McIsaac School student is headed to the 2015 Canada-Wide Science Fair. Chloe Reitlo was among three students chosen to proceed to nationals at the recent Northern Manitoba Science Fair in Thompson.

IAM Local 1848 members have no immediate plans to strike after rejecting a final contract offer Hudbay defended as generous.

The sky above was cloudy and grim, but they could still see their Ray of Sunshine. Family members and friends gathered at Raylene Dawn Grant’s final resting place this past Sunday, April 19, for an emotional tribute to the murder victim.

H udbay has additional processing in mind, not mining, with its planned purchase of the long-idle New Britannia gold mine in Snow Lake. The deal, worth as much as US$17.